by beanstalk | Mar 25, 2016 | Adoption, Blog
By Meg Roetta, MSW, LMSW Grief and loss is an abstract term that we tend to associate with death. Grief makes us uncomfortable; we can’t fix or make it all better. So our society tries to confine it into steps, into a process and organize it into the perfect box that...
by beanstalk | Feb 12, 2016 | Adoption, Blog
Have you completed your family through in vitro fertilization (IVF)? Do you have frozen embryos in storage from those procedures? There are currently over 600,000 frozen embryos in storage in the United States. If you are one of the families with these embryos, you...
by beanstalk | Dec 10, 2015 | Adoption, Blog, pregnancy services
“Thank you so much, LFCS, for helping us with the most precious gift in the world!” Little Jake found a forever loving home, because of friends like you! Jake’s birth parents knew they were not in a position to raise a child and had turned to LFCS to find a loving...
by beanstalk | Nov 19, 2015 | Blog
I like to lay down at night with my 4 year-old daughter for a few minutes because she often will share with me a little glimpse into her world. One night not long ago, she told me that one of her friends at school that day had told her that she couldn’t pretend...
by beanstalk | Nov 16, 2015 | Blog
David was born in St. Louis in April of 1968. In May of that same year, his adoption of finalized and he became the son of Joe and Loretta Pennington. “I was raised by the most incredible parents in a home filled with love,” said David. He grew...
